Triton World Record

World record attempt to go the furthest distance in a pedal-powered boat in 24 hours! Hoping to get schoolchildren inspired. #STEM. Tweets: @Status_Social

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Unfortunately we had to stop the 6 hour record half way through due to crew fatigue and prop fouling. Got a 1 hour record in the bag still. Good job ladies!

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The wind is a bit nicer to us today at only 4 knots.

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And we are off! A 10:25 start with 29 miles to go.

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So if you're free and fancy a go yourself on the boat tomorrow as well let us know via Twitter or Facebook. We'd greatly appreciate it!

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We need a few people to turn up at 8:30am for the record start and a few more at 4pm for the record end and packing up. It's at Rutland Water.

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Anyone fancy a day out in the sunshine by a lake tomorrow? We need some volunteers to help us break the 6hr womens record tomorrow.

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While we are checking out that data we will also be preparing for the 6hr womens record this Friday. Check back then for more live updates.

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It's going to be a close one but no matter the result the crew did an amazing job, especially going all out in the last few laps.

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So the 12 hour record is looking too close to call for bow. We need to look closely at our GPS data to see if we've got it.

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WE ARE FINISHED. Gotta do some checks on the GPS data before we know for sure.

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1 HOUR TO GO

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It's getting close! 5.5 laps more to go before 8:14pm.

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*now to power through. Got a bit carried away in the excitement I forgot how to spell!

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It's confirmed. We are the holders of the 6 hour mens pedal powered boat record!!! No to power through to the 12.

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@Mulsanne11 We've got the 6 hour record in the bag! Looking good to hit the 12 with an average lap speed near our 9kph target.

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Here they are! Passing the corner bouy of our course.

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.@TritonProject are hoping to break the World Record and go the furthest distance travelled by a pedal powered boat in 11 hours at @RutWaterPark today. Best of luck Dave, Tom, Steven and Liam!

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We've 'jetissoned' some empty water bottles from the boat and successfully caught them with out supply canoe. We'll get them filled up and returned to the crew while they do another lap.

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We've also managed two food/water resupply runs to the crew.

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The current wind speed is 6 knots so within our acceptance limits to keep going.